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From: stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re^2: Should ``csh'' be part of the System V distribution?
Message-ID: <248@sdba.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 22:21:41 GMT
References: <2599@usceast.UUCP> <2601@usceast.UUCP> <10857@steinmetz.ge.com> <7941@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2132@munnari.oz>
Organization: S. D. Brown & Assoc.  Atlanta, Ga
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Posted: Mon May 23 18:21:41 1988

> In article <7941@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> > In article <3141@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> > >On 4.3BSD systems, a script that begins with "#! /bin/csh -f" will be
> > 
> > It most certainly does NOT work well!  In practice one ALWAYS needs
> > to put the -f there,
> 
> Depends what the intended use of the script is.  If you were writing
> something for just your own use, being able to write it using the same
> environment that you would use to just type the commands to the shell
> must surely be easier (ie: the script uses all your aliases, variables,
> etc, as imported from .cshrc).
> 
> Then surely no-one sane would actually write a csh script to be used
> for anything more than personal uses, its programming language is so
> foul (only just a bit better than the v6 shell it replaced) that you'd
> have to be insane.
> 

	Interesting, I know a real time indutstrial control
	supervisory system where a large part > 20 % of the code is
	csh scripts (Please note that I didn't say I like it, just
	that I knew it existed !).


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